ACORN busted

An ACORN employee named Juan Carlos Vera, who used to work in the San Diego ACORN office until he was fired, seems to be crying NO FAIR!



"I never done anything wrong in my life," Vera said. "They destroyed my family."



The trouble with that is, he is caught ON TAPE offering to help smuggle under-age Central American girls into the U.S.A. by way of Tijuana using his "contacts." He also wanted to contract for the services of the supposed prostitute in his office.



The last I knew, human trafficking and soliciting for prostitution were both illegal. Even if they weren't, they are morally wrong.



If Mr. Vera engages in such behavior and manages to keep it from his family, he is also guilty of lying. That's wrong, too.



His family may be "destroyed" but it isn't the fault of the film makers. Mr. Vera needs to look in the mirror when he points fingers at who is to blame for his woes.

Tax on soda?

There is a commercial running on TV in which a woman tells "government" not to tax sodas and juice drinks (a.k.a fruit-flavored sugar water) because it makes things too hard on families who are struggling to get by as it is.

I am all for lower taxes. There are too many taxes already and people are paying too much of their income into the bottomless hole of government programs.

HOWEVER, her reasoning leaves a lot to be desired. If times are so hard for her and her family, DON'T BUY THE STUPID SODAS IN THE FIRST PLACE!

If you don't buy them, it doesn't matter how much tax is on them because you won't be paying it.

They aren't good for you, anyway.

WAIT! This ad is sponsored by the people who make and sell juice drinks (a.k.a fruit-flavored sugar water) and sodas. They are TERRIFIED that you will figure out this is one tax you can so easily avoid if you don't buy their useless and unhealthy product!

Don't buy the products - don't pay the taxes. The companies lose, the government loses, but YOU WIN!

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter seems to think that if people don't agree with Barack Obama then people are racist.

Are you kidding me?

Does he really think that people have to agree with Obama's socialist destruction of America or they are RACIST?

Unbelievable.

Besides, what Obama says he believes in and what he says he is going to do depends on who he is talking to. That means what he says to group A can be polar opposite of what he says to group B. Are both groups racist because they disagree with what he told the other guys?

The Train Wreck That Is Jon & Kate Plus 8 - Part 2

So sad.

You Lie!

Joe Wilson told the truth. Barack Obama does not. Too bad Joe Wilson chose an inappropriate moment in time and an inappropriate place to point out that inconvenient but irrefutable truth.

It Begins In The Home

"On the Job: Employers struggle with unprepared college grads" published in The Salt Lake City Tribune features the struggles employers deal with when they hire irresponsible immature self-centered children masquerading in adult college graduate bodies.

The article meandered around without ever establishing how this mess could happen.

Let me suggest that it happens at home, as the child grows up physically but is never taught to be a responsible adult.

Far too many parents pull their kids out of school for frivolous reasons such as vacations, trips to Disneyland at the parents' convenience, or for any other spur of the moment reason.

It may be dry, boring and fuddy duddy, but a kid's job is to be in school, and he or she should be there unless he or she is sick, or unless there is a real family emergency such as an accident or death in the family.

Another cause is that while parents may TELL their kids it is wrong to lie or steal, they don't actually live their lives that way. The child isn't taught that calling in sick when you are not sick is lying. The child isn't taught that when you are at work, you are exchanging what you have (skills) for what the employer needs. They are buying your time and your skills and paying you money for what you do for them.

>>EMPLOYERS ARE NOT PAYING EMPLOYEES TO SURF THE INTERNET OR TALK ON THE PHONE TO THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY! <<

Employees who accept pay while engaging in such behavior are guilty of theft.

The newly hired college grads featured in the article probably have no idea why they were fired. No one ever taught them such behavior is not acceptable in the workplace. That concept probably should be reinforced in the schools, but it need to be a lifelong mindset that begins at the beginning - at home.

The Train Wreck That Is Jon & Kate Plus 8

I confess that I don't watch this show as much as some people do, for the same reason most people I know don't watch it at all: it is *REALLY* hard to watch Kate bash and totally disrespect Jon behind his back, to his face, in front of the kids, to the kids, and all on national TV.

As professing Christians, Jon is commanded to love his wife, and Kate is commanded to respect her husband.

That doesn't happen. At least there is no evidence of it.

I remember watching part of a re-run of the episode where they first went to Utah. Jon took off up the slopes and I remember thinking, "Oh my gosh! He looks like such a weight has been lifted off of him!" I had never seen him so free and relaxed.

To me that was the beginning of the end.

Did Jon get a taste of - or was he reminded of - what it felt like to be free of domination? And once he tasted liberation he just couldn't go back?

Who knows? Certainly not me!

FWIW, I am fully aware that no separation is totally the fault of one person. I have no idea how Jon behaved off camera and we did not see a whole lot of him on camera except in the interviews. Even then Kate did not seem to think he could do anything right. She seemed to find countless ways to belittle and humiliate him, such as the time she picked him to pieces for saying something like "lunch picnic" instead of "picnic lunch."

The media is paying a lot of attention to Jon lately and he has been behaving quite badly. Flailing around like a balloon that somebody just let the air out of is the best description I can think of.

Do neither of these people stop to think their kids will read ALL of this some day?

Are they still going to church?

Are they getting marital counseling?

Does Kate not realize that when it isn't her turn to be in charge, Jon has the right to bring people into the kids' lives that Kate might not like? Oops - unintended consequence here.

I just think this whole sordid mess is really sad and there are eight innocent victims.

What a shame.

I really hope both Jon and Kate get some Biblically based Christian counseling.

Sat It Ain't So!

According to CNN, certain people are trying their best to do away with IE 6 and force people kicking and screaming in protest to upgrade to IE 8.

IMHO, that would be an absolutely terrible mistake.

I recently "upgraded" to IE 8 and was reminded once again that "New and Improved" is almost always always only half right. In the first few minutes - *MINUTES* - of use I discovered that not only did the screen look "funny" but the spell check feature of the Google Toolbar did not work, I was not able to listen to the radio online as I like to do while working on the computer, and every time I signed into a second G-Mail account IE 8 automatically signed me out of the first one "for my own protection."

You gotta be kidding me.

All that in just a few minutes? And this is supposed to be BETTER??????

I couldn't uninstall that "piece of work" fast enough.

I am quite happy with IE 6 and I will thank you meddling techies to leave well enough alone.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Miss California USA

Beauty pageants are nothing new. The Biblical Esther became queen because she won a beauty pageant.

But the most recent Miss USA pageant got downright ugly.

Miss California answered a really loaded question with her honest opinion, an opinion shared with the majority of USA residents and citizens. However, the person who asked her the question has a different opinion.

When she gave her opinion he immediately launched into the most vicious, vile, profane and mean personal attacks imaginable. He didn't just disagree - he personally attacked her. He threw verbal temper tantrums and called her all sorts of derogatory names. His behavior exhibited a total lack of class.

And he wasn't the only one. She actually received death threats. Her mother had to get a new cell phone number.

Throughout this all, she has remained gracious and polite, respectful and tasteful. Says a lot for one so young.

In fact, the ONLY people who I have EVER heard say ANYTHING negative about her don't even know her.

The people who actually know her all say positive things about her. All of them.

Queen Esther was put where she was "for such a time as this." The same can be said about Carrie Prejean.